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With the launch of our website design, our blogs have moved. We’ll still be posting UW football news and analysis, but now you’ll find it all in the Huskies channel. Same content as always, just a different home for it. You can leave feedback about the site changes More

Links: Another nice story from the Sacramento Bee on Shaq Thompson and Arik Armstead on their prep for the NFL. They’ve come a long way with their nutritional education. “Your body is everything,” Thompson said. “In college, it’s different. You eat what you want. No one listens to a nutritionist, but now…

In the video above, Shaq Thompson reviews his six-week training program at SKLZ Headquarters in Carlsbad, Calif. He says he’s hit his target in the 40-yard dash (somewhere in the 4.4 range was a goal he set earlier). Now he just has to do it in front of the world at the…

The February doldrums continue for college football during this quiet period between National Signing Day and the spring ball. With the struggles of the UW men’s basketball team, I know many are especially excited for spring practices to get going. Fear not: Football isn’t too far away. The Huskies will kick off their…

Four Huskies are heading to Indianapolis this week for the NFL Combine, and Danny Shelton, Hau’oli Kikaha, Marcus Peters and Shaq Thompson are among the more intriguing prospects there, for various reasons. All could wind up being early-round draft picks, with Shelton, Peters and Thompson potential first-round selections. Mike Mayock, an NFL…

Happy Presidents’ Day, folks. I was wiped out by the flu for the past several days, so time to catching up on some links here: Marcus Peters says he knows he has much to prove entering the NFL Combine this week. Chris Petersen talked about UW’s quarterback situation, recruiting and…

Links: Marcus Peters told USA Today that he blames himself for being booted from UW in November. “It was an avalanche ready to happen, man. It was going to collapse sooner or later,” he said. (Scheduling note: I have an interview Saturday with Peters, who has been training for the NFL…

Good morning, everyone. Hope you get a chance to read this fantastic story on Shaq Thompson and how his failures in the Boston Red Sox rookie league motivated him. A passage from Emily Kaplan: Because of his football commitment, his baseball season would end early. In his final game, he struck out…

Catching up on links: Former UW receiver Kevin Smith, who was in training camp with the Seahawks last year, was one of seven free agents signed by the Seahawks on Tuesday. Smith had 50 catches for 765 yards and four TDs as a senior in 2013. Eastside Catholic’s Brandon Wellington, who…

Eastern Washington quarterback Vernon Adams Jr. has announced that he will leave the powerhouse FCS program and transfer to Oregon to play his senior season this fall. Adams is on track to earn his undergraduate degree from EWU this summer and will be eligible to play immediately for the Ducks in…